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en, a combination of science fiction and Icelandic folk tale. I literally sat on the edge of the chair, waiting, fearing, hoping…</p><p id="564f">Created by Baltasar Kormákur, Katla is a series, with stunning images of an extremely brutal landscape.</p><p id="8abb">Katla is a new Netflix original series from Iceland released on June 17, 2021. Produced by RVK Studios, it is an eight-episode series, set in the small town of Vík in South Iceland, near the subglacial volcano named Katla .</p><p id="369a">All hope of finding Grima’s sister is fading… until the day mysterious guests, emerging from the melting glacier near the volcano appear in Vik. Beneath the way the story unfolds itself, are the questions it leaves a viewer with. Can a wish, or hope, or desire manifest itself into reality? Can we actually wish something into existence?</p><p id="9f24">And the ultimate question: after someone, we love dies, would we want them to rise from the dead, and return to us? In any form?</p><p id="0864">It reminds me, very strongly of H H Munro’s ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’, and some of Khalil Gibran’s verses.</p><p id="b18c">An underlying, but very pertinent theme that laces through the fabric of the story, is that of mental health, in various forms.</p><p id="631f">Watch it, if you can. It will probably leave you with a lot of questions: but ultimately, isn’t that what words and stories are all about? Many answers, more questions, and some s

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‘Katla’ : Netflix serial Review

One momentous day, the sub-glacial volcano, Katla, in Iceland, erupts. Again and again, for a whole year. The entire village, Vik, is covered in ash. Those who could move out, have. But a group of people hangs on. Some of them are volcanologists, working when they can. others stay on because this is the only life they know. But Grima, the protagonist (played by musician GDRN, Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð) is still looking for her sister, who disappeared on the day of the first eruption.

The landscape is bleak, ashen: the people resigned, desperate. Winds howl. Snow covers ash. Ash covers snow.

And then, in an icy recess of black frozen bleakness, something stirs.

A half-buried eye opens.

Limbs slither across the black ice, snakelike and sinuous. The thing moves, stands up painfully, and begins walking towards Vik.

That was the first one.

That was the first time.

So begins one of the most riveting stories I have ever seen, a combination of science fiction and Icelandic folk tale. I literally sat on the edge of the chair, waiting, fearing, hoping…

Created by Baltasar Kormákur, Katla is a series, with stunning images of an extremely brutal landscape.

Katla is a new Netflix original series from Iceland released on June 17, 2021. Produced by RVK Studios, it is an eight-episode series, set in the small town of Vík in South Iceland, near the subglacial volcano named Katla .

All hope of finding Grima’s sister is fading… until the day mysterious guests, emerging from the melting glacier near the volcano appear in Vik. Beneath the way the story unfolds itself, are the questions it leaves a viewer with. Can a wish, or hope, or desire manifest itself into reality? Can we actually wish something into existence?

And the ultimate question: after someone, we love dies, would we want them to rise from the dead, and return to us? In any form?

It reminds me, very strongly of H H Munro’s ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’, and some of Khalil Gibran’s verses.

An underlying, but very pertinent theme that laces through the fabric of the story, is that of mental health, in various forms.

Watch it, if you can. It will probably leave you with a lot of questions: but ultimately, isn’t that what words and stories are all about? Many answers, more questions, and some stray, strange thoughts?

If you have seen the series, do let me know, in the comments, if it affected you as powerfully as it did, me.

Shoutout to Julia E Hubbel for a remarkable piece of writing about the things that we stash away, fail to find when we need them, and have to throw out, years or decades later: and about how trying to clean one part of the house ends up in the sheer physical and mental labour of cleaning up every part of it!

If you like my home of words, consider supporting me at Ko-fi.com/sumanarayan1160. Thank you.